Letter: Fracking in Michigan will have lasting effects on resources

View full sizeIn a July 18, 2013, photo a huge plume of gas burns while work progresses at a tracking site run by Encana Corporation in a heavily wooded area between Kalkaska and Grayling, Mich. A proposal to drill as many as 500 wells in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula by using hydraulic fracturing is attracting attention and criticism from environmentalists. AP Photo | Detroit News, Dale Young

The precious resources of Michigan's land, forests, water, air and its people need better protection from the invasive probable long-term damage fracking can cause. Become aware, fracking in our vulnerable state will impact us now and for generations to come.